George Papajohn

Suburbs throughout the Chicago area routinely issue no-bid contracts or skirt formal bidding procedures in bestowing the lucrative privilege of hauling away their residents` garbage, a Tribune survey has found....

Voters in Golfview Hills Fire Protection District Tuesday approved a proposal to raise taxes by 10 cents per $100 assessed valuation and residents of part of Downers Grove Township opted...

On the other end of phone lines vibrating with numbers and sob stories were spouses, buddies and brokers. Behind the grim faces, invisible calculators tallied the losses-the mutual funds, the...

An atheist group filed suits Monday against Zion and Rolling Meadows, challenging the constitutionality of Christian symbols in their city seals and seeking a ban on the emblems. The suits,...

A Rolling Meadows man held his estranged wife at gunpoint for four hours in a Prospect Heights store Sunday before surrendering to police, authorities said. Several shots were fired, but...

The U.S. government has moved to cut off at least $14 million in funds for the education of handicapped children in Chicago after negotiations have failed to produce a plan...

Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes, the Chicago First Party candidate for mayor, received a salary of $90,000 in 1986--nearly $35,000 a year more than his public pay--for part-time legal work...

A 23-year-old Carpentersville man who police say may be responsible for 1,500 burglaries in Chicago`s suburbs and out of state in the last two years was ordered held in lieu...

Republican candidates for sheriff appeared to be heading to overwhelming victories in Lake and McHenry Counties Tuesday night, while their counterpart in Will County was topping a big day for...

The inundated area of Cook County along the Des Plaines River from Prospect Heights to Des Plaines was declared a state disaster area Tuesday by Gov. James Thompson after he...